Stylin'

Friday, August 03, 2012

It feels like forever ago that I was playing with flowers, tramping about fields and pretending I had a clue how to be a stylist. I've lost all concept of time. It turns out that completely changing my daily routine has had more of an impact than I had expected. I knew it would be a change - that was the whole point - but I feel like all the projects I had been so carefully balancing have been tossed up into the air, and now I'm scrabbling on the floor trying to pick up the pieces.

It was hard for us to find a way to show off Jane's work without being all, "Hey, look at my jewellery! I'll just put my hand up here next to my face in a totally natural way! Did I mention my jewellery?" but we tried. Obviously, hanging around a field wearing a flower crown and no trousers isn't exactly normal (if that is normal for you, can we please swap lives?) but hopefully it's not completely ridiculous. A little ridiculous is fine, of course; it is fashion, after all.

Huge thanks to Jane for asking me to play stylist for the day. Over a year ago, I wrote about Jane and Kristen and their choice to lead a creative life, to bring something beautiful into the world that wasn't there before. For Jane to have confidence in my ability to do the same feels pretty darn excellent.

Please, please go and visit her site to see the rest of the shoot and the full collection in all its glory.

No only is the jewellery utterly gorgeous, your styling is magnificent. The photography is shit hot too. I LOVE the photo with the model sitting on the wall. The colours are perfect. And she's sitting how people actually sit! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE.

Kirsty I am awed by your talent. I mean, I knew you were cool and all that, but this is brilliant. Obviously Kristen and Jane had SOMEthing to do with it all, but we'll just ignore that and pretend this is all your awesome work.

Ok, I can't leave it at that. All three of you are ridiculously talented. I am unutterably jealous of all of you.

These pictures are deliciously summery but with a cool edge. A bit like Scotland at this time of year! I came across Jane Gowans' amazing jewellery only a few days ago whilst researching for my new job with Mary's Living and Giving and then I see that you guys are collaborating to win gold in the style stakes and I realise how cool and tight knit Edinburgh is! Bravo!

Kirsty, Kirsten and Jane... these shots are freaking gorgeous! I love it all – especially her sitting on the wall in the yellow jumper and the one of her trailing her hand through the field (I think you totally nailed the 'look at my jewellery' in a really aspirational way!) Love it :) x